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Legislation on OTRs should not apply to Crown Forces

Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness today said that the legislation
required to deal with the small number of OTRs should not apply in any way to
members of the British State Forces.

Mr McGuinness said:

" Sinn Féin is totally opposed to the inclusion of British state
forces in the current OTR legislation. The British government is responsible
for British state killings and the policy of collusion with unionist death
squads. The British government is responsible for the decades of cover up
and concealment which have accompanied this policy.

" Sinn Féin members were a primary target of the policy of
collusion and political assassination operated by the British state. When
others were in denial about this policy Sinn Féin was the only party
which stood by the families. That remains our unswerving position.

" As both the British and Irish governments have admitted, the inclusion of
British state forces in the current legislation was never discussed with Sinn
Féin. It was never agreed by Sinn Féin. Sinn Féin has made
clear to the British government that the legislation should apply only to
OTRs and not to British state forces." ENDS